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Most of the time, mangas were axed because they were not selling enough copies to be profitable.
 

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A lot of mangas popular in the non-JP audience ends up axed coz of profitability issues than the story itself. Who knows? The Japanese have their own preferences, and it possibly didn't work.

I remember a manga I liked years ago, Mx0. A lot of readers outside Japan liked the story, but it was axed eventually. Some tried to have the author continue it via crowdsourcing, to no avail.
 
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A lot of mangas popular in the non-JP audience ends up axed coz of profitability issues than the story itself. Who knows? The Japanese have their own preferences, and it possibly didn't work.

I remember a manga I liked years ago, Mx0. A lot of readers outside Japan liked the story, but it was axed eventually. Some tries to have the author continue it via crowdsourcing, to no avail.
Dude, Mx0 has potential but axed early. That same with Psyren. Shounen Jump wasted these two mangas.
 

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This manga is horseshit. plot and execution are horeshit. mc is completly retrded. all the women are cardboard cutouts with 2 very big ballons stapled to their chests
 

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Just by reading the description, I can say that the last part sounds preachy AF. Wouldn't touch it.
 

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I hate that 2 big old favorite of mine (chinese novels)
"Craftman master"
and "I have a hotel"

were axed/dropped of low popularity.


Worse thing is : they were too ahead of their times.
If you go to faloo now, or any raw websites, this kind of slowlife series are going bonkers but before, it was the "faceslap" era BS.
Spoiler : Craftman had MC being the only one with "magic" in normal earth and no bs "oh wow hidden society", not really magic but the material had special effects by systems, also heroine had ADHD syndromes.
and Hotel system caused rooms to have magical effects. One of which is "dreaming the perfect life you subconsciously crave". This had ton of potential.

Edit : Also he sculpted a Misaka Mikoto wood statue that could do a railgun yepyep. Wait. Now i think about it, there is proof of my words that they were ahead of its time, is the fact before axed there was livestream of "tv show" nearby. And for people that dont know, later in 2018ish, there was a upsurge trend of "livestream" novels until now 2024. And well, if the author continued on the arc its just like this "meh but popular" fast food novels of 2024.
Goddamnit. Sometimes it feels bad to be right.
 
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owotrucked

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why did this manga flop so badly despite having a good story idea and concept

The art is meh

Past historical/mythical figures being isekai'd and genderbent is cringe

But maybe it's fun for japanese people because they use relatable known figures of their culture. Like how an american would find funny to see a genderbent Abraham Lincoln thicc goth vampire hunter or some shit
 

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We gotta accept the truth, Shounen Jump fucked up.
 

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I hate that 2 big old favorite of mine (chinese novels)
"Craftman master"
and "I have a hotel"

were axed/dropped of low popularity.


Worse thing is : they were too ahead of their times.
If you go to faloo now, or any raw websites, this kind of slowlife series are going bonkers but before, it was the "faceslap" era BS.
Spoiler : Craftman had MC being the only one with "magic" in normal earth and no bs "oh wow hidden society", not really magic but the material had special effects by systems, also heroine had ADHD syndromes.
and Hotel system caused rooms to have magical effects. One of which is "dreaming the perfect life you subconsciously crave". This had ton of potential.

Edit : Also he sculpted a Misaka Mikoto wood statue that could do a railgun yepyep. Wait. Now i think about it, there is proof of my words that they were ahead of its time, is the fact before axed there was livestream of "tv show" nearby. And for people that dont know, later in 2018ish, there was a upsurge trend of "livestream" novels until now 2024. And well, if the author continued on the arc its just like this "meh but popular" fast food novels of 2024.
Goddamnit. Sometimes it feels bad to be right.
Link pls Craftman master
 

Tsuru

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Link pls Craftman master
It was on uukanshu.
And the website was shut down recently.
buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
by using duckduckgo
and despite not being accessible, it show the title/glimpse of chapter, and copypastying back the raw title to duckduckgo search again,
i found back a raw hosting website for it


QIDIAN : https://book.qidian.com/info/1023263779/

RAWS :

2nd raw : https://tw.hjwzw.com/Book/Chapter/44678

3rd raw : https://m.ucsm.net/1494191816.html
 
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